This semester-long course for high school freshmen is an exploratory course in web communications. It explores and delves into applications encompassing: digital citizenship, information literacy, creative credit and copyright, online and in-person collaboration, designing and developing accessible websites as an avenue to personal creativity, and understanding structural aspects of computing (e.g., hardware, servers, devices, file organization). The course is taught utilizing a project-based learning (PBL) approach. Each unit of the course is broken down into lessons. Lessons consist of video tutorials, short quizzes, example web pages to explore, and web design exercises in which students develop and publish their own web sites. Each lesson includes at least one formative short multiple choice quiz. At the end of each unit, students take a summative multiple choice unit quiz that assesses their knowledge of the concepts covered in the unit. Unit 1: Digital Citizenship & Cyber Hygiene · Unit 1: 1.1 Project Introduction · 1.2 Digital Footprint and Reputation · 1.3 Cyberbullying · 1.4 Internet Safety · 1.5 Privacy & Security · 1.6 Information Literacy · 1.7 Creative Credit & Copyright · 1.8 Digital Citizenship and Cyber Hygiene Quiz Unit 2: Benchmark 1: Create a Blog Post · 2.1 Benchmark 1: Create a Blog Post Unit 3: The Internet · 3.1 Intro to the Internet · 3.2 Internet Hardware · 3.3 Internet Addresses · 3.4 DNS · 3.5 Routing · 3.6 Packets and Protocols · 3.7 The impact of the Internet · 3.8 The Internet Quiz Unit 4: Benchmark 2: Crowdsource an Editorial Blog Post · 4.1 Benchmark 2: Crowdsource an Editorial Blog Post Unit 5: Web Design · 5.1 Introduction to HTML · 5.2 Structure of an HTML Page · 5.3 Formatting Text · 5.4 Links · 5.5 Images · 5.6 HTML Lists · 5.7 HTML Tables · 5.8 HTML Styling · 5.9 Introduction to CSS · 5.10 CSS Select by Tag · 5.11 CSS Select by Class · 5.12 CSS Select by ID · 5.13 Multi-file Websites · 5.14 Viewing Websites · 5.15 What is Intellectual Property? · 5.16 Protecting Intellectual Property · 5.17 What is Web Optimization? · 5.18 Optimizing Web Information Unit 6: Benchmark 3: Interview an Expert via a Podcast · Benchmark 3: Interview an Expert via a Podcast Unit 7: What is Computing? · 7.1 History of Computers · 7.2 Computer Organization · 7.3 Software · 7.4 Hardware · 7.5 Internet Hardware and Sending Information · 7.6 Clients and Servers · 7.7 Personal Servers vs. Web Server Providers · 7.8 Future of Computing · 7.9 What is Computing? Quiz Unit 8: Benchmark 4: Present a Data-Driven Insight from a Simulation · 8.1 Benchmark 4: Present a Data-Driven Insight from a Simulation Unit 9: Design User Interfaces · 9.1 Intro to Design Thinking · 9.2 Criteria and Rubrics for Evaluation Websites · 9.3 Empathy · 9.4 Define · 9.5 Ideate · 9.6 Prototype · 9.7 Test · 9.8 Designing User Interfaces Quiz Unit 10: Benchmark 5: Develop and Curate a Campaign Website · 10.1 Benchmark 5: Develop and Curate a Campaign Website Unit 11: Final · 11.1 Fina